HR Advisor London, England
Job description
To apply for this role please upload your CV to our careers page - https://www.witherscareers.com/job-detail.php?jobid=206364
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a bright, ambitious and capable HR Advisor to provide advisory generalist HR assistance to our legal divisions and help drive our major HR processes for our teams in the UK, and where applicable, globally. As part of this role you will also look after your own client group by leading the trainee solicitor programme for the London office. This role is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience operating at an Advisor level.
This is a position where you will have a varied and exciting role providing essential support, within a business partner model, to a number of our legal divisions, as well as across the wider generalist HR team. You will have a business facing role requiring you to liaise and build key relationships across the firm.
Areas of focus and responsibilities
- Working alongside the HR Mangers to provide day to day HR advice and guidance to the divisions.
- Dealing with ad-hoc HR issues as they arise, providing advice and mediation on employee relations issues.
- Assisting the HR Managers and their client groups to design and deliver effective HR solutions.
- Playing a key role in the management of annual HR processes including the coordination and preparation of materials for appraisals, promotions, salary review and bonuses; attending meetings with HR Managers, Partners and Regional Divisional Leaders.
- Helping to facilitate the talent management and succession planning process, alongside the HR Managers by producing, maintaining and collating the relevant information.
- Checking all regular HR correspondence for the legal divisions drafted by the HR Assistant, ensuring it is accurate and complete.
- Drafting more complex correspondence such as unique contracts or complex flexible working arrangements, disciplinary and grievance and performance management matters.
- Reviewing and analysing management information such as the monthly staff report and flagging issues to the HR Managers.
- Acting as the point of contact for those taking parental leave, conducting maternity/paternity/ parental leave meetings and ensuring the relevant paperwork is provided.
- Managing the flexible working application process for staff.
- Proactively managing absence through monitoring absence levels, dealing with long and short term sickness absence, ensuring appropriate occupational health referrals and liaising with the Reward team on PHI claims.
- Managing the trainee solicitor programme – coordinating the seat rotation, attending appraisals and facilitating the qualification process with the Head of HR and Training Principal.
- Being an organisation contact with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and liaising with the SRA as required. Managing the firm's E&W practising certificate renewal alongside the partnership team.
- Running the end of probation review process – attending meetings, addressing any issues, making recommendations and ensuring all paperwork is returned.
- Conducting exit interviews.
- Ad hoc project work – including writing policy, research, updating current systems/procedures.
Skills and attributes
- First class written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence and win the confidence and respect of others
- Team player with a flexible approach
- Excellent attention to detail and a sense of urgency
- Methodical approach to working
- Commercial aptitude
- Proactive and resilient
Qualifications required
- CIPD qualified with previous HR Advisor level experience within a professional services organisation
- Highly PC literate with strong systems skills.
The essentials
- 9.30am to 5.30pm but flexibility is a must
- 12 week probation period
- 4 week notice period
- Flexible benefit package including pension, private medical insurance, denplan, season ticket loan, subsidised gym memberships, lifestyle discount scheme, the ability to buy and sell holidays, flu jabs, doctors consultation service, cycle to work scheme, on site café and more.
About the HR team at Withersworldwide
The HR department at Withers has a complement of 28 HR professionals based in the London office, 13 in the US, 1 in Geneva and 9 in Asia. The department works with its global divisions on a business partner basis.
The HR team is a hardworking and is closely integrated to deliver a valued service to the business. Our HR team enjoy the unique culture that Withers has to offer. We are proud to have won HR team of the year in 2019 at the HR in Law awards.
About Withersworldwide
Withersworldwide has been acting for successful individuals, families and institutions for over 100 years. We advise clients on the full range of their business, personal and philanthropic legal needs, both at home and abroad. With offices in the key financial centres of Europe, Asia-Pacific, the United States and the Caribbean, we provide coverage and services that other law firms focussed on the needs of the individual cannot. We have represented 51% of the Top 100 in The Sunday Times Rich List, 25% of the US Top 100 Forbes Rich List, 30% of the Top 20 Hong Kong billionaires in the Forbes World's Billionaires list and over 20% of the Forbes Asia's Richest Families list.
Information for Recruitment Agencies
Withersworldwide endeavours to recruit and fill vacancies directly. However, when we do need to engage with agencies, Withersworldwide operates a preferred supplier list and will not be accepting unsolicited applications from non-PSL agencies for this role.
Equal Opportunities Employment Statement
It is the policy of Withersworldwide to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of ethnic origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation or disability.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, EC4M 7AN
Reference ID: 206364
